Bowman Dismisses 60% Of Americans Based On Their Skin Color
Any time a leftist politician starts a letter with “Dear White People,” there’s a good chance that whatever is said will be steeped in hatred and, at best, extremely offensive. Such is the case of an open letter penned by ousted Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., published online Tuesday.
“I don’t know why I feel the need to keep talking to you. I don’t know why part of me still has hope for you and for us,” Bowman wrote to “white people.” “Some of you are too far gone. But maybe enough of you aren’t and will join us in fighting to end white supremacy.”
Swap “white people” with “black people” for a post written by any Republican politician and it’s easy to image the coals they’d be raked over for weeks. Bowman, however, doesn’t play by the same rules as a black Democrat privileged under the victim hierarchy of social justice. In his online essay Tuesday, Bowman said he “just wanna call out the hypocrisy and evil of it all and just continue to hope.”
“I won’t rely completely on you because I know what’s most important is to work with my community and other like-minded allies in the fight for justice,” he wrote, before launching into a tirade over the New York City verdict in the Daniel Penny case. The 26-year-old ex-marine was just acquitted of manslaughter and negligent homicide over the chokehold death of a threatening 30-year-old subway rider last year.
“I ask white people,” Bowman wrote, “how many times have you seen a white man killed in cold blood on camera on your newsfeed? How many times have you even heard about this?”
“I wish I didn’t have to live with all of this trauma deep in my bones,” he added. “I wish I could just be free to be me.”
In Bowman’s world, America is racist because a deep blue city jury acquitted a white subway passenger for protecting others on public transit. Bowman is complaining as a two-term congressman who got off on obstruction charges after he pulled a fire alarm to disrupt a vote at the Capitol. In October last year, Bowman pled guilty to just a single misdemeanor with three months probation and a $1,000 fine after he smeared demonstrators on Jan. 6, 2021 as “violent insurrectionists” whose “terrorist attack” warranted a federal crackdown.
“I tried the door, it didn’t work so I pulled the alarm thinking it would open,” Bowman had told reporters after the stunt had caused the Cannon House building to evacuate. Footage of the incident, however, showed Bowman took down the warning signs before pulling the alarm.
Bowman’s own hypocrisy aside, his racist screed on X this week is exactly how Democrats have spent years waging a race war. Bowman picked a handful of cases perceived by leftists as unfair and exploited racial grievances to peddle calls for unrest. On Tuesday, a prominent Black Lives Matter leader in New York City demanded vigilante justice in the aftermath of the Penny verdict four years after the country was put through the most explosive nationwide riots in decades at the behest of BLM. The riots of 2020, estimated to cost nearly $2 billion in just the first two weeks, erupted following the death of George Floyd.
While Democrats and the media framed Floyd’s election-year death as just the latest episode in a nationwide epidemic of police violence, data from the Washington Post show just 17 unarmed black men were fatally shot by law enforcement that year. While that number might still be 17 too many, less than two dozen deaths is hardly cause for a looting spree.
Bowman, however, is fomenting racial grievance after Democrat support among black men slipped in the last election. Victimization is a cornerstone of identity politics. To keep voters within the party, Democrats will have to keep convincing them of their own victimhood. There’s no better way to do that than to convince America nearly 200 years after the end of slavery remains white supremacist.